An Apache girl dances in a kneeling positon at her Sunrise Dance on the San Carlos Indian Reservation Arizona USA
An Apache girl dressed in buckskin clothes dances in a kneeling positon at her Sunrise Dance a first menstruation rite the San Carlos Indian Reservation Arizona USA During the ceremony the girl becomes Changing Woman the mythical founder of the Apache Tribe and this part of the ceremony is an enactment of when Changing Woman was impregnated by the sun and gave birth to a son Behind the girl stands her godmother and behind her the medicine man and his assistants sing and beat their drums
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